Playing non-spotify (previously downloaded to phone) music on spotify app

[ian_m_wilson]

I have several gb of music downloaded to my phone from before I subscribed to Spotify. When I first downloaded and subscribed to Spotify I'm relatively certain that this music was visible within and playable through the Spotify app. I can no longer, for the life of me, find it. This is really frustrating as it would be nice to be able to play all my music and shuffle it through one app and not download all of these songs through Spotify when they are already on a folder in my phone. If anyone could help with this I would really appreciate it. Thanks

[Daniel · Accepted solution]

Hi there, the Spotify app has never been able to detect local files. You'll need to trabsfer these to your PC then sync them across if you want to be able to solely use the Spotify app for your music... yes I know that's  pain!

Please read the support topic here for assistance setting up local file sync: Listen to local files

Make sure that you are on the same WiFi network and Windows & third party firewalls are configured to allow the Spotify connection through.

Another point to note is that sometimes if a track is stored locally & is also available to stream then when you sync to your device it will automatically use the Spotify streaming version but the data from your playlist. If for some reason the metadata such as track length differs this can cause conflict and break the track. In this instance you are best off removing the local file from your playlist on the desktop and adding the track from the Spotify server then re-sync. This should fix this issue.

[ian_m_wilson]

Okay. I was hoping to avoid that. Thanks for your help though, I appreciate it